


love is not a victory but neither is it pain

by Himboskywalker



Series: Love Is [1]
Category: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Genre: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Blow Jobs, M/M, Suitless Darth Vader, Vaderkin, Vaderwan, the world's angstiest blow job, typical darkness that comes with Darth Angst
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2020-12-31
Updated: 2020-12-31
Packaged: 2021-03-10 23:08:24
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Chapters: 1
Words: 4,710
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Story URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28461414
Author URL: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Himboskywalker/pseuds/Himboskywalker
Summary: Five years after Anakin Skywalker falls Obi-Wan Kenobi helps lead the Rebel Alliance against the Empire.But hope has reached its end,and General Kenobi confronts Vader in a desperate effort to save his men and the last threads of the rebellion.
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Series: Love Is [1]
Series URL: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2084727
Comments: 18
Kudos: 232
Collections: Obikin Secret Santa 2020





	love is not a victory but neither is it pain

**Author's Note:**

  * For [ToolMusicLover](https://archiveofourown.org/users/ToolMusicLover/gifts).



> For ToolMusicLover's Obikin Secret Santa prompt!This is the definition of skidding over the finish line at the ring of the bell,so I apologize for the wait dear,but this prompt entirely got away from me so this is merely part one of this series,so I hope that marginally makes up for it lol

The plan had been rash and desperate from the very beginning. It birthed from weariness and distress and the Alliance High Command staring down the barrel of a primed blaster that might have been called lack of supplies, men, and interplanetary support.

“It is foolish,” he told Mon Mothma over the glow of a holomap. “You are greatly underestimating Vader’s capabilities; we stand no chance in an aerial battle against his squadron.”

“I disagree,” she said simply. “Willix and Fulcrum reported movement from Saw Gerrera and his cell, and while I strongly appose his violent tactics, we can take advantage of Vader’s attentions being drawn elsewhere.”

His heart lurched horribly at Ahsoka’s passing mention. He told himself that knowing she lived was enough, that knowing she fought with such fire and flickered through the expanse of the galaxy with her unquenchable light could ease one of the busted ravines in his bleeding soul. Thoughts of Ahsoka only dredged up thoughts of the children, of seeing Luke and Leia grow older in passing, distant increments of one year measured at a time. And then thoughts of the children only led to the black hole abyss of Anakin’s memory—of before.

“And again,” he said, “I think you are underestimating Vader. He will not be so easily distracted by someone like Gerrera, his focus has never been with the other Rebel cells. You _know_ I remain one of his priorities.”

“General Kenobi,” she replied with an exhaustion that he knew only breathed from the kind of death they had endured in the last five years. “If the lightspeed research is completed at the Naboo Security Complex then we are finished, we both know it.”

“He won’t like an attack against Naboo, I can only warn you of the unholy vengeance we will face.”

She nor Bail had listened, convinced of either impossible victory or fueled by suicidal desperation. But five years of futile regrouping and fighting with lacking soldiers, supplies and intelligence against the mighty fist of not just the Empire, but the nightmarish horror of Darth Vader and the terror of his 501st broke the galaxy’s resolve. The Rebel Alliance stood on the brink of its defeat, and every morning when he tied on his robes and looked at his lined and harrowed face in the mirror, he thought the same thing, _I have nothing more to give._ But each day passed, and he went to bed ashamed for his hopeless doubt, and each morning his heart ached.

The distant rumbles, like springtime thunder on the far horizon, were their first sign that Imperial forces had not been drawn from Gerrera’s attack as Mothma predicted. The force too, shivered through the back of his mind in warning.

“— _General Kenobi sir—_ ” came the crackled, staticky line over his comm, filled with the frenetic, white noise of battle in the background.

“Lieutenant Antilles,” he answered back between heavy breaths and the bright, hissing sparks of Imperial sentry droids hitting the floor.

“— _Sir—my squadron is taking fire from an Imperial—kssshkk—Super Star Destroyer—kshhkk—I think it’s the Executor, sir—”_

The pinpricking, cold dread that frizzled down his spine felt at once an old and inevitable friend. In his heart of hearts, he knew he could not outrun the past forever, but perhaps five years felt not enough. He thought at once of Ahsoka and the twins, who did not deserve to be abandoned again, of the terribly brave soldiers in the alliance, many so young they might have been padawans, and of Bail, who he did not wish to shoulder the burden of the alliance to alone.

“Retreat,” he answered urgently. “Lieutenant you and your men retreat now—I repeat across all channels—all forces retreat now—”

“ _Sir—kshhkk—we are taking heavy fire—I’m not sure if—kshkkk—if any ground troops will be able to evacuate—We can try and draw fire from—”_

“No,” he snapped into the comm, “I will draw the fire away—all other forces retreat.”

“ _Sir—_ ”

“That is an order lieutenant,” he snarled.

Jedi were meant to keep calm in the face of peril, for the sake of those they protected, to make sure they did not lose control of their power in the force, for their own sakes. But it was not heroic determination that fueled him as he sprinted though the security complex halls as alarms wailed and emergency lights throbbed red and bloody against the sterile, white walls.

He nearly bowled over a familiar young lieutenant who he clipped in the shoulder as they both rounded a corner in opposite directions. He diverted the arcing line of his saber and grabbed her arm as she gasped, her dark and terribly youthful eyes widened and reflecting bright blue against the illumination of his blade.

“Lieutenant Bey, you need to evacuate all of your men immediately—everyone must retreat now!”

“General Kenobi, I was sent to bring you with us!” She yelled over the ground shaking grumbles of destroyer fire reigning down on the complex.

“You must take you squadron and get out now—I need to find a transceiver bay.”

“There’s one two corridors behind me. I’ll—leave a ship for you, General.”

He squeezed her shoulder goodbye and brushed past without letting himself look at her. He could not bear to see her wild and chaotic curls that always fought her hairband, nor could he dwell on the way her flight suit always bunched around her knees and ankles, far too big and meant for someone fully grown.

But dwelling on the aching adolescence of the soldiers who fought and bled and died with him only nurtured the darkness that vied to take root inside and so he breathed a prayer into the force and made for the transceiver bay as the complex screamed and threatened to crumble around them. Durasteel and plastoid walls crackled with busted fissures and the ceiling moaned with the throbs of panicked scarlet lights.

With his heart high in his throat, he flipped the transmitter to high priority Imperial broadcast and spoke into the mic. “This is General Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Rebel Alliance hailing the _Executor._ This message is for Darth Vader—if you want me—you can come and get me yourself.”

He flipped off the transmitter and walked, saber drawn but unlit, through the dust filled halls until he reached the complex’s security dome, hexagonal and constructed of transparisteel to overlook the southern Nabooian valley and the docking bays and launch pads just underneath it. It offered him his first true sight of how poorly the battle had gone, with the twilight sky filled with bursts of fire and the sparkling arcs of crashing ships. The sunset burned and the rebel fleet with it and there amongst the tempest loomed the shadow of the _Executor_ , a reaper in a field of culled victims.

Or maybe—it was not the _Executor_ who felt the true executioner, but the sweeping black presence that drew closer in the force—the advance of a dying star in the back of his mind that felt an all-consuming maul of spiraling darkness from which no light could possibly escape. So he watched the firestorm and felt the clawing desperation in the force so thick and palpable it tasted like copper in the back of his throat.

And then, all at once, the darkness eclipsed the light, and he did not need to turn to know that Darth Vader loomed behind him.

“You must be an even bigger fool then I ever thought, old man.”

Perhaps if it were some creature’s voice, a thing of machine or metal, then the sound of his voice would not feel like a blaster to the sternum. But it was the voice of Anakin, the man he raised, the man he bled and suffered and cried with—the man he once loved more than himself. But Anakin Skywalker died on Mustafar, and though Darth Vader wore his hardened face and spoke with his still soft voice, the Jedi Knight who possessed the other half of him was buried and mourned with the Order and innocents Darth Vader butchered.

“Perhaps,” he agreed tiredly, “but then, it brought you here didn’t it—Lord Vader?”

He finally turned and nearly flinched at his first true sight of the Sith Lord in half a decade. He looked unmistakably older. The hollows of his cheeks and the bruises beneath his eyes etched his features into a cold and furious mask and his ebony suit drew his once golden skin deathly pale and wraithlike.

Distantly and far removed from what felt like any kind of reality that made sense or felt real, he knew the Imperial Holo Channels swooned over the handsome features and towering stature of the Emperor’s right hand and most feared enforcer. Imperial loyalists fawned over the Sith and even more bizarrely, many galactic royal families vied for their sons or daughters to marry him. But his pretty features didn’t make up for the sallow, yellow hue of his eyes, or the oily miasma of the darkside that clung to him like some sick and putrid mold.

“Why are you here, old man?” Vader spat and drew his saber.

Because here, at the end of all things, he felt little hope and only desperation that perhaps his own self sacrifice might save the last of the resistance and the children of the rebellion. Hope lived on in Ahsoka, and the rumored survival of Caleb—and Cal—and Quin. Obi-Wan felt at harmony with his death, when he knew others who carried the torch of the Jedi would surpass him to bear the light’s flame. There was no true death in the force, after all, and with his missions mostly served, this felt the final, tender benediction of the force. Its last gift was peace.

“I am here to put an end to this, Vader.”

“You came here to die,” he responded flatly, his mouth twisted into an unimpressed sneer.

He couldn’t help but snort. “And you came here to kill me, so it seems—at last we agree on something.”

“Why are you _laughing_?” Vader snarled, taking a menacing step forward. “Are you so full of hubris that you think you can best me—that you underestimate me even _now_!” Vader’s fury heated the air to sulphureous gas so reminiscent of Mustafar it left no question of the resentment and loathing he nourished and stoked, carrying the memories and rage like a physical, tattered shroud.

“What would you have me do, Vader?” He asked, exhausted. “Did you want me to cry—beg—grovel on my knees for mercy? Did you think I would submit to you—join you—after everything you’ve done and everything I have fought for?”

The acidic fury in the air thickened to a gagging haze and he swallowed down bile at the darkness wriggling against his skin, seeking permission and entrance.

“After everything _I_ have done?” He spat behind bared teeth and wild, unfocused eyes. “You left me for dead on that lava bank—murdered my wife and child!”

“Is that what Sidious told you? Surely you’re smarter than that, I taught Anakin at least a little better—”

“ _Shut up!_ ” Vader hissed, voice pitching high and strained. “You think I would even believe your lies for a single _moment_ —you took _everything_ from me—”

“You took everything from _yourself,_ ” he bit back, even as Vader advanced on him, saber drawn and lit to corner him against the transparisteel. “ _You_ chose the dark side— _you_ took Sidious as your master—you butchered the children in the temple, your _family. You_ murdered Padmé and your child—”

“You _abandoned_ me,” Vader snarled with his blood lit blade held to Obi-Wan’s throat, so close its frenetic hum shivered heat across his bared skin. “You _betrayed_ me—”

He wrapped suddenly furious fingers around Vader’s mechno wrist and for a breath, they both held the Sith saber to his throat, its scarlet light sparking between them and lighting Vader’s golden eyes to molten magma.

“I regret many things—but I would never have betrayed Anakin Skywalker I _loved_ him!”

Vader stilled with his blade still held to Obi-Wan’s throat and his brows furrowed, expression slanted oddly blank. “I’ve heard your talks of brotherly love, old man. The Jedi’s claims of family are old and tired ones, and it’s an especially worn speech from you.”

“I loved him,” he admitted, staring into a Sith’s eyes, of the face one once so familiar and beloved. It was his final confession. “As a child and my padawan, as a brother and a friend, and as—the other half of me.”

Vader’s face twisted and he screamed through snarled teeth and anguish. “You are a _liar!_ You would have never forsaken your vows—never—you—”

“It was never against the code to love, merely to do so all consumingly, with possession. Your darkness, Vader, poisoned Anakin Skywalker’s love— _you_ killed him and everyone he loved.”

He wheezed around the gloved hand suddenly wrapped around his throat and blinked through the kaleidoscopic bursts of color behind his eyes at the painful crack of his head hitting the transparisteel.

Vader hissed, so close that he felt the warmth of his breath against his cheek and caught the scent of sweat and flesh. “ _You. Are. Lying,_ ” he bit and dug durasteel fingers into the hinges of his jaw till bone creaked and his mouth parted on a ragged gasp from the pressure.

“I loved him!” He said louder, practically seething in Vader’s grip and washing his face with his own warm breath.

Vader’s sickly copper eyes flickered curious and he tilted his head to regard him, with his crackling saber tilted towards the floor. “What a pity you cut me down and left me for dead then.”

Struggling for breath past the narrow passage of his throat he closed his eyes, but no reprieve came from the darkness, only the licking memory of flames and screaming. “It was the coward’s decision,” he wheezed weakly, “not to kill you. I looked at Anakin’s unconscious body laid on the lava rock and in that moment I—betrayed everything the Jedi stood for. I could not kill him, and I—and the entire galaxy has paid for it every day since. It was the most selfish thing I have ever done—to save Anakin Skywalker’s body when only _you_ raged in the corpse of his soul.”

Vader wrenched his gloved fingers from Obi-Wan’s neck, and he gagged on his ragged, coughing gasps for air.

“You are a fool,” he said flatly. “Do you really think me some demon possessing Anakin Skywalker’s empty body? I _am_ Anakin Skywalker.”

“No,” he shoved Vader back, who stepped away from him easy and willing. “My apprentice would never have—never—”

He looked out the transparisteel to see rebellion ships shattering into starbursts of light and others desperately throwing themselves into lightspeed.

“Obi-Wan,” he said slowly, and took a heavy booted step towards him again, his looming presence of black armor and sweeping cloak making him feel even taller than he actually was. “This isn’t what I expected from you. You didn’t _actually_ come here to die, did you?”

He took stock of himself; battered, exhausted, the force thin as thread in his tight-fisted control, and beneath it all, full of sorrow to his marrow. Seeing Vader wear Anakin’s face—facing his worst mistake and all the horrors of the past, it ached more then he ever imagined.

“I came to defend my men as I always have, no matter the cost,” he rasped, “or have you forgotten the definition of loyalty just like you have forgotten to be human?”

The force trembled in warning and, igniting his saber, he threw up his blade against Vader’s furious attack. Behind where their sabers crackled against one another, blue and red lit his Sith eyes mottled and violet.

“You want to preach to me about loyalty—when as my master you were always meant to stand with me,” Vader snarled and wrenched his saber from the block to lung into a familiar attack. It should have been familiar, when Obi-Wan remembered teaching Anakin the technique when he only stood knee high and the chubby fingers that wrapped around his practice hilt were unsure and clumsy.

“I did everything I could to save him—but it wasn’t enough.”

They fell into a dance with years of practiced steps, with parries and swings and blocks so attuned to the other it might as well be choreographed. Vader’s downward attacks were perhaps more vicious than Anakin’s, his rage and hatred fueling the sheer power behind his movements. And perhaps his own movements were changed from five years of more war and desperate survival, less playful, less quarter. It made them evenly matched, even after so much.

“If you actually loved me then you would have killed me.”

He cast Vader’s blow aside and half froze with his saber poised sideways, a resting move of Soresu that he took up in a moment of hesitation as he looked into Anakin Skywalker’s beautiful, haunted features. “I couldn’t—”

Vader bared his teeth and something nauseous and shaky unfurled in his stomach at the sight of open tears glinting in his golden eyes. It made him look, despite the armor and the red of his blade, despite his yellow irises even, like Anakin, not the hate fueled Sith who slaughtered children and razed planets to the ground.

“You left me to _him_ ,” he choked past his tears and hung his head to the floor, riotous, snarled curls shielding his streaked and anguished face.

The force writhed on itself in twisting, black agony and he shivered from the darkness’s icy claws. But that darkness, violent and hateful, still sparked with jagged bolts of hot desperation, as heated and electric as lightning. The air tasted of ozone laced power and sickening fear, and that horribly—wretchedly familiar thing—reminded him of Anakin, always Anakin.

“An—Anakin?” He choked around some unreal and shocky horror filling his mind with buzzing, white static. It felt like floating through the Jedi temple and all the corpses all over, felt like the dreamlike nightmare of Mustafar. For five years reality felt a distant and impossible thing, as if any moment he would wake up from the inconceivable terror of every waking day.

“If you ever truly loved me, you would have ended me. If I was your brother—your padawan—you would have put me into the ground and out of my misery.”

“You still don’t listen,” he forced past the vice of his own throat. “I loved you—selfishly, Anakin. I loved you as mine, even—even after all you did, I could not bear to let you go.”

He lifted his head then, tear streaked, and curls matted with sweat and his brows furrowed. He looked dumbfounded as he took an unsteady, hesitant step towards Obi-Wan and extinguished his saber. “You’re lying again.”

“No, it is a shameful truth, but a truth all the same.”

Then, under the transparisteel and distant blooms of fire and war, Darth Vader fell to his knees before Obi-Wan and dropped his saber carelessly to the floor. He blinked past golden tears and swayed as some violent, unhinged pain unfurled in the force like a bruise against pale skin.

“You were in love with me,” he said blankly.

An old pain, long ignored though always there, ached behind his ribs and he grimaced, biting back his own tears as he glanced away from the man before him. “It doesn’t matter.”

“Of course it does,” Anakin snarled, “I would never have—”

“Never murdered our family and betrayed everything simply because you knew I—” He chewed back his own anger and regarded Anakin blinking through his tears and twisted expression. “Why are you here, Darth Vader?”

“I want—I wish to serve you, master—”

“After everything you’ve done,” he demanded, anger burning hot and indignant in his chest. “After all—”

Anakin yanked him forward by a tug of the force and blinked up to him with a painfully open expression and though it was a twenty-eight-year-old man wearing armor, he looked for a moment, like a terrified nineteen-year-old again. “I loved you too,” he breathed.

“You had a _wife,_ ” he gritted out, laying fingers against sweat soaked hair. For a moment he did not know what he intended to do, warring between justice and mercy. His fingers clenched around curls before his own mind caught up with the action and he tilted Anakin’s head back to look into his yellow, stricken eyes. “Anakin,” he finally said softly, “my love would not have saved you either.”

He sobbed in Obi-Wan’s grip and lulled his head back, pressing the weight of his skull against the tender hand which held him. “Let me serve you again, master. _Please_ —I—whatever you want—I’m sorry— _I’m sorry—_ ”

He tightened his fist and forced Anakin to meet his eyes. “What I want is to leave,” he said gently.

His golden eyes widened, and he jerked forward out of Obi-Wan’s hand to wrap fingers against his hips and press his face against his pelvis. “No! Not again—you can’t leave me again!”

“Anakin—” he tried to pry him away, but it was like trying to peel melted durasteel from his own skin.

“Let me serve you, master,” he gasped against warm skin where he rucked Obi-Wan’s tunic up.

He jerked, startled, and alarmed all in one. “Get off your knees,” he demanded.

But Anakin shuddered a blisteringly hot gasp against the delicate skin just below his navel and dug fingers under the waistband of his pants. “ _Master—_ ” he pleaded. It was then in the force he felt his clamoring desperation, like a chorus of screaming bells, so single-minded in its intensity one might call it insanity.

“ _Please,_ ” he whimpered and tilted his face up to look into his eyes. He did not move, hardly even breathed as Anakin reached tentative fingers forward to tug down Obi-Wan’s waistband as he blinked up at him, tears still glistening over gold and spilling down his cheeks. And he still did not move when he sighed and curled forward to mouth at his softened cock and take it between his parted lips.

“Anakin,” he gritted warningly, even as he twisted his fingers in his curls and his stomach clenched at the bottoming out surge of pleasure that flipped in his gut.

Anakin, with his Sith yellow eyes and the discarded lightsaber at his feet, and his Super Star Destroyer looming over their heads, moaned around his cock and leaked his frantic want into the force like a bleeding wound.

He clenched his teeth and hardened in Anakin’s mouth, feeling his tongue press at the underside of his stiffening head.

“What do you—think you’re doing?” He forced past the blockade of his own tongue, feeling the room spin around the eye of their frenzied want. He clutched at Anakin’s head and shuddered through his muffled moan around his cock.

There was hardly enough pressure, no tight suction of his lips or even taking him deeper into his mouth to simulate friction or thrusting movement, just Anakin holding him in the heat of his mouth and tonguing at the underside of his head as he whimpered around him like a wounded animal.

“What are you—”

“Hurt me,” he gasped, letting him slide past his lips, wetted by spit and fully reddened and hard. “Punish me—master I deserve—let me pay for what I’ve done.”

Darth Vader had enacted and unleashed so much pain upon the galaxy, so much death and torment and hopeless agony. He held grieving widows whose husbands did not return from their flights, let children cry into the neck of his robes because they last saw their parents three planets before and knew they would never see them again. And Anakin Skywalker had enacted his own personal torment and hell onto Obi-Wan. He walked the halls of the temple, littered with youngling bodies, and he held Padmé’s hand as she wept over, not herself, but the fate of her husband. But he would not—could not enact the same pain onto the man before him.

He loved him—had loved him for what felt like a lifetime. Had longed for him, ached for him, missed him with every fiber of his body. And love did not breed pain, nor darkness, no matter the past hurts and betrayals. There was always hope—wasn’t there, no matter how seemingly dark or past the point of redemption the galaxy seemed?

“I will not,” he whispered.

Anakin’s face cracked, and he sobbed as he took Obi-Wan back into his mouth.

“Anakin—” he tugged back on his curls even as he leaked precome against his slicked lips. “You don’t—”

“Let me,” he groaned with fluttering eyes and tear dampened lashes. “Master, _please_.”

Their situation, their pain, their turmoil, was not conductive to want. But his own love had always been wanting, and Anakin’s desperation, his longing, the way he freely leaked lust and passionate desperation into the force, made him ache and throb in the heat of his mouth.

Anakin looked up to him with widened, hopeful eyes and finally hollowed his cheeks to suck at the head of his swollen cock and he hissed, his gut tightening on the sharp edge of pleasure as he spilled into his mouth with a surprised, bitten off sound.

Anakin’s golden eyes rounded, and he whimpered as he swallowed around him, working his tongue against his slit though the orgasm. The moment he clenched against the burnt heat of too much Anakin let him fall from his mouth and clenched a gloved hand between his legs with a dazed expression.

“ _Ahh_ —” he breathed with parted lips and a lance of jagged, sharp-edged want into the force.

“Anakin—” he went to his own knees before the Sith and laid delicate fingertips against his cheek. “Let me help you.”

His gloved fist tightened over himself and he seethed, more tears trailing down his flushed skin. “I want you to hurt me—I need to _pay_ for what I’ve—Obi-Wan _hurt_ me.”

He pushed forward on his knees and sighed against Anakin’s mouth, brushing his lips against slickened ones that tasted of tears and still of come. Into the ghosting kiss he murmured, “my love is not a punishment.”

Anakin sobbed and surged against his mouth, deepening the kiss like a lightsaber attack, swift and ruthless. He bit at Obi-Wan’s lips and breathed through the barbed tangle of his own lungs as they swallowed the other’s jagged noises.

“Master—” he whimpered against his lips, pushing the line of his own pants down to work his fist beneath his clothes.

Obi-Wan pushed his gloved hand aside and wriggled his own hand under the Sith armor to take Anakin’s leaking cock in his fingers.

“ _Ahh_ —” he hissed, digging durasteel fingers into his shoulder as an anchoring point. “Why won’t you—why are you—?”

“I am _not_ Sidious,” he bit against his jaw as he felt Anakin leak wet and hot against his hand. “I will not hurt you. The light is not—agony—my love is not—sorrow.”

Anakin panted as the force wound tighter and tighter, pulled taught by fear and rage and untempered self-hatred.

“Anakin—” he tilted his jaw up and squeezed him under the line of his pants.

“Master?” He bit back, even now a cornered animal, wild and ready to chew his own leg off if it meant any escape or reprieve from the reality of his own making.

“I forgive you.”

Anakin stiffened and came into his fist with an agonized expression and a bright burst of ecstasy into the force that lit his darkened signature like the blaze of star going supernova. He collapsed forward into Obi-Wan’s arms, trembling and sobbing against his throat. And beneath the pain and the darkness he felt a glimmer in the force, like a banked coal with its last shudder of warmth long after its spark was thought to go out.

“She was right then, there is some light in you left.”

**Author's Note:**

> The Willix mentioned was one of Cassian Andor's code names and the Shara Bey who makes an appearance is Poe Dameron's mother. Many of the characters mentioned I took blatant liberties with their timelines,but also there's like 1 1/2 rebel characters who are canon to have been in the alliance pre-Yavin so ya know,screw canon.


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